Undocumented Labor Exploitation
This cluster debates how businesses hire undocumented immigrants for cheap labor, suppressing wages and exploiting workers, advocating for enforcement against employers rather than immigrants to fix the system.
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Very possible to import immigrants, illegally or through visas, to labor for below market rates.
It sounds like immigrants are willing to do it because they have no other option. The issue here isn't US citizens deserving special treatment; the issue is closing the loophole which only benefits the companies.
Why? they’re being subsidized to hire Americans, not exploit foreign undocumented workers
POSIWIDinstead of assuming we want to stop illegal immigration and then asking why we don't do the obvious thing that would accomplish that goal (eliminating the incentive to hire illegally by punishing companies that do it such that it's not worth it on the balance sheet), look at what the situation actually is and ask yourself why people would want that. The situation right now is that there's a near-endless supply of labor that is 100% exempt from any and all labor protectio
It's not "migrant" labor. It's labor which consists of people who _have broken US law_, and it's hired by people who are also breaking US law. It's like that article a few weeks back which called an armed home invader an "unwanted house visitor". These people _can't legally work here_, like, at all. If this is something you don't like, have your congresspeople change the law. Selective enforcement of laws is an insanely slippery slope, you won&#
Agree with this 100 percent and to add further part of the reason this wasn’t dealt with is because people on both sides of the aisle know that it brings cheap labor.Heck, even Trump wanted to make farm and hotel workers exempt until there was too much blow back.Every other country enforces its immigration laws. There’s no good reason that we shouldn’t.
Unjust to ordinary Americans as well as the immigrants, while favoring businesses. If there was a legal avenue to bring in enough individuals for farm work and other manual labor, there would be far fewer illegals living in the shadows and wages would be higher.
Cheaper labor held in line by the hope of citizenship to displace current workers.
Seems like a way to get non-citizen day laborers at super low rates without the liability.
That is rich from Americans, who exploit illegal immigrants for cheap labour!